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Alright, I'm trying to re-image my wife's laptop because she's, well, ignorant in the ways of PC maintenance.

Anyhow, the set-up disk cannot establish the first folder it needs to (but won't tell me why) so I need to know what the keystroke sequence is to just reformat the hard drive. Can anyone give me some help? I have to get this done sooner than later because she's been on my PC a lot lately and I fear she's downloaded some crap that will blow my system up!

Thanks fellas!
 
There is no actual keystroke to format the drive. but be carfull, some IBM, Compaq, HP, and Sony laptop's have a hidden restore partition and if you
F-Disk the drive you may endup wiping out that partition as well.
That would make thing's a real pain in the A$$. I would say just go to the website of the manufacture and serch for system restore
 
MW..I just got off line with HP live chat with somewhat the samething. I am giving Sweetdiesel my computor for his mom, and I don't have the reformate disk, so they gave me a link so I can do the reformating, and then I can get it down to diesel. All diesel would need is the operating disk that I can't find since we moved, but he can get that for around $25.00 thru a 3rd party of HP. I would do as Clintd said about contacting manufacture, I think that would be your safest bet.

Good luck bro!
 
from cmd/command/DOS prompt:

format volume [/FS:file-system] [/V:label] [Q] [/Q:size] [/C] [/X]

example: format c: /fs:fat32

Reformats the c drive to fat 32.

For full help select start->run, type cmd, press enter.
When DOS window comes up, type help format, press enter.

WARNING: The help instructions (last 2 lines above) can be accessed from Windows, but If you attempt a reformat, run it from a dos system loaded on a floppy drive WITH A CD ROM DRIVER LOADED or it won't access the CD to do the install.

I've got two IBM's and their system restore sucks ass. I've always run IBM's but lately their attempt to break into the click-and-drool market is really lame. My system restore disk and the replacement copy they sent both have corrupted Symantec registry entries in them, screw their partitions. :D Format that sucka' and install a clean system with Grisoft AVG! :D
 
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Curious, why are you formatting to a fat32 and not NTFS? Is this for XP or 98 and older?
 
Well, I contacted HP (manufacturer of the wife's notebook" and determined that the restore discs I have are the wrong ones. Their suggestion is to install a "friend's" Windows version, can you believe that? I don't think Microsoft would be too happy with that advice!

Anyhow, took your advice Nevnitro and found an online vendor that does sell the restore disc for this notebook.

Thanks for the assist!
 
rocknbil said:
jon see "for example." It's the first in the list on the help files.
:D
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I understand that part. Most 98 machines and older fat32 is fine but windows 2000 and up NTFS works much better.
 

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